Barbershop

2005

Barbershop

6.2 | en | Drama

Calvin Palmer is the owner of a barbershop on the Southside of Chicago. Reluctantly inheriting the neighborhood establishment and popular hangout from his father, he juggles his responsibilities to his clients, his family, and his community as a cast of unique characters regularly bring their hopes, dreams and problems with them into the shop.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP10 Crimes of the Heart

Oct. 16,2005

After Romadal jumps bail, Calvin tries to track him down to avoid losing the barbershop. As Election Day approaches, Jimmy seeks an endorsement from Eddie, who was "like a son" to the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington. Isaac and Terri finally give in to their mutual attraction and consummate their relationship. Yinka learns that Vivian is not as innocent as he thought. Shocking turns of events leave both Jen and Jimmy in desperate need of cash.

EP9 The Politics of Money

Oct. 09,2005

When Isaac puts his celebrity clientele ahead of his regular job, Calvin fires him. Jimmy tries to raise funds and support for his faltering campaign. Calvin puts up the barbershop as collateral to bail Romadal out of jail . . . but then Romadal disappears. After learning that Vivian will be put to death upon her return to Nigeria, Yinka helps her seek sanctuary at the bed and breakfast.

EP8 Debates and Dead People

Oct. 02,2005

Calvin continues to spend time with his other family, and the barbershop suffers in his absence. Isaac steals a famous client from Yinka, and the two barbers eventually come to blows. A ventroliquist and his dummy cause trouble for Jen and Dana at the bed and breakfast. Yinka falls in love with a married Nigerian woman (Nzinga Blake). Romadal is arrested for assault.

EP7 Family Business

Sep. 25,2005

Jen and Dana get help from Big Tricky and Da Boot (Kia Joy Goodwin) in developing their urban bed and breakfast. Calvin neglects the barbershop while spending time with his "other" family (Tanya Roberts, Christopher "Kid" Reid, Kendra Smith). Malcolm drops the lawsuit after Romadal attacks him. Jimmy's campaign manager (Lalanya Masters) starts to question whether Jimmy can win the election. Terri and her drug counselor James Ricky begin a very odd sexual relationship.

EP6 A Black Man Invented the Stop Light

Sep. 18,2005

Calvin learns that his mother and brother (Roz Ryan, Phil LaMarr) have known about his father's second family for years. The former mayor of Chicago (John Rubinstein) decides to run against Jimmy. After discovering Terri and Yinka's drug habits, Calvin forces them to enter drug rehab, led by an extremely confrontational drug counselor (Kevin Hart). Eddie's friends question his "deviant behavior" with Claire. Jen and Dana decide to open an urban bed and breakfast. Malcolm (A. Doran Reed) sues Calvin for invasion of privacy after he is caught on the surveillance cameras having sex in the back of the barbershop.

EP5 What's Good for the Cos...

Sep. 11,2005

The barbershop staff (along with Jen and Jimmy) attends one of Bill Cosby's lectures on personal responsibility in the African-American community. Terri and Yinka continue to smoke marijuana at the barbershop, which drastically affects their work performance. Isaac, who only dates women of color, decides to try dating White women. Eddie is in turmoil after learning the truth about Claire. Calvin learns that his late father had a second family . . . including a White wife and adult biracial children.

EP4 Whose Pussy is That?

Sep. 04,2005

Yinka tries new dirty talk on Jen's gynecologist (Victoria Platt). Jen competes with her sister Jan to find the perfect gift for Calvin's birthday. Terri finds marijuana in Romadal's locker, after which Issac, Yinka and Eddie join her in smoking it while on the job. The Kang siblings try to hide their flings with Terri and Isaac from their mother Dana. Jimmy decides to run for alderman. Eddie discovers that Claire is a transsexual.

EP3 Madonna is a Ho (And Dana's F***ing Blind)

Aug. 28,2005

Calvin and Jen have dinner with David and Dana Kang (Kipp Shiotani, Lauren Tom), who are constantly cursing at each other in public. Michael Kang (Yun Choi) breaks up with Terri, while Isaac begins seeing Michael's sister Michelle (Camille Chen). Eddie picks up a gorgeous woman (Sheryl Lee Ralph) in a bar.

EP2 "N" Lovers

Aug. 21,2005

"Niggaz", an urban fashion chain store owned by African-Americans, opens a franchise in the neighborhood. But when the owner of the new store turns out to be Korean-American, some residents are outraged by the use of the N-word . . . and Jimmy takes full advantage of the situation. Terri is attracted to the son of the new store owner. Big Tricky (Page Kennedy) wants his cousin Romadal to be the spokesman for his new hip-hop CD, but he needs Calvin's approval first.

EP1 This is My Bullsh*t...And You're Welcome to It (a.k.a. Get Your Hand Out of My Womb)

Aug. 14,2005

Jen convinces Calvin to hire her distant relative Romadal Dupree, who has just been released from prison. Calvin teaches Yinka how to talk dirty to a woman during sex. Terri is forced to confront her anger issues after her identity is stolen. Jimmy tries to use his nonexistent political clout to do a favor for Jen.

6.2 | en | Drama , Comedy | More Info

Released: 2005-08-14 | Released Producted By: Blind Decker Productions , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.sho.com/barbershop

Synopsis

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Cast

Omar Gooding , Barry Shabaka Henley , Gbenga Akinnagbe

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Robert Teitel

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Reviews

deadman22 Barbershop was on everybody's so so list. By now this show should have no problem getting viewers.The first 2 or three episodes were slow but it came together.The show is funny and entertaining.Maybe you have to be a certain or have a certain preference to laugh. Calvin is the mild argument fixer upper and everybody else is a great supporting cast. The run in and outs of the barbershop and its character are put together very well. I believe this show should stay on for another couple of years.Showtime doesn't really have any standout shows anymore.If you count weeds which probably wont come back on because the show was boring. But getting back on Barbershop the season ending left a big question for next year on what will happen. Seeing how Showtime has no premier shows this can really succeed .This is probably second only to Soulfood

Judson Knight I can't believe a lot of the complaints I see about this show here. I guess for some people, the idea of a show that's extremely witty and sexy, with an interesting set of characters about whom the perceptive viewer instantly cares a great deal, is just not enough. Maybe it doesn't fit with preconceived notions of the proper attitudes, but--in part for that very reason--*Barbershop* is the bomb!After a long day of work, I sat down in front of the tube to find something relaxing and entertaining--something intelligent but not tedious, funny but never infantile. And then I found this, a show that manages to pull off the witty sex-talk that *Sex in the City* supposedly offered, even though to me *that* show always rang false. Whereas SitS seemed to try too hard, this one just flows effortlessly, with an effervescence that springs from strong writing and acting.I've seen many shows that attempt to create a world like that of *Barbershop*, with its ensemble cast, its spiciness, its clever dialogue, its sardonic treatment of timely themes and its heartfelt approach to universal ones--and usually the result is a tired-looking mishmash designed (however inexpertly) to fool viewers into believing that they're watching something worthwhile. But this one actually achieves what so many others have failed to do. Maybe I'm supposed to be irritated or offended, but I'm too busy enjoying Omar Gooding (a fabulous actor who I loved in *Playmakers*), the great Phil Lamarr of *Mad TV* fame, and a number of other gifted performers.

Maximus Parthas As an writer, I'm ashamed of John Ridley for creating something so culturally poisonous as the HBO series barber Shop. And I'm ashamed of the entire cast of actors for allowing themselves to become iconic puppets for someone's racial or political agendas. Notoriety is not worth your dignity. After watching 2 shows. (all I could stand) I was sickened at the callous handling of serious social issues. I laughed at a few thing but all of that was easily overshadowed by truly offensive content. It seems all of Mr. Ridley's talents were applied liberally into creating a socially demeaning disgrace. I still can't believe he, as a black man wrote this trash. While listening to the actors uncomfortably recite someones badly scripted ideas of black humor and consciously demeaning an entire race. It sounded just like it had been written by some purebred 250,000 a year, middle age white mans vision of what a black person would say. Do. Put up with. No basis in reality at all. Just a long list of slanderous perceptions handed out as freely as you would penny candy. All the "Strong Black Men" (They sure use that word a lot too) men are either criminals or idiots. But sensitive idiots so it's OK. Sex is not even a surprise in this neonazi misrepresentation of black culture. Each of the actors must have a mandatory nudity clause in their contract because promiscuous romps with any and everyone is standard fare. With predictable white bred humor it usually comes full view right after discussions of someone's mother. No depth, no pride and no respect. This series should be yanked from the air as soon as possible and all the institutions involved with creating or promoting it should be boycotted. Just knowing they are a part of such a destructive act of hypocrisy and social degeneration will haunt these struggling actors long after the series is gone. And I sincerely regret being witness to the moral judgment of the female cast in particular. The precedents you set now are not yet in stone. Speak up and out before you doom another generation of young minority women into mandatory nudity clauses. Even Sherly Lee Ralph lent her name and body to this shameless venture of comedic propaganda campaigns. A beautiful, intelligent actress with years of experience. I won't even ask why. To watch this series is to contribute to a cultural disgrace. A blatantly racist and sickeningly offensive diatribe of garbage. There may be some gems inside but the vehicle they reside in is completely unlike it's successful predecessor and far from any roots.A quote from Mr. Ridley when asked about his movie Undercover Brother and it's potential to "help" the black artists:{{{ I don't know if white people would have made this movie. I don't know if white people would have had the same kind of love of the blaxploitation movies that we sent up. But also we weren't trying to put down anybody. We were trying to make fun of the stereotypes that everyone has. By nature, coming from two black guys, it has a different feel. The white version is the Austin Powers movies, which are about having fun, and being funny, those are really funny movies but we wanted to add a different layer to it. }}}I don't think they would have either. Only an insider could ignorantly achieve such deep betrayal and get away with it.

nick rostov It's an uncomfortable feeling, watching talented actors (the awesome Barry Shabaka and others) and writers (John Ridley, the man who wrote the awesome Three Kings) strain and strain for a joke and never entirely land one. Dismayingly two-dimensional characters, tired routines (guy coaching guy about how to talk sexy to a girl, somebody walks in and thinks it's a romantic/sexual moment between the guys, ha ha ha), strained plotting--something about a woman being hounded by a broadly drawn completely non-real anti-abortion activist and a broadly drawn completely non-real pro-choice activist--an old fashioned nudge-nudge wink-wink attitude to sex--a ridiculously caricatured would-be politician with a fake expensive watch--all adding up to a mish-mosh of wannabe. Where will it all go? Will the innate talent of all these players make it work as the series progresses? Will this be the old quality-challenged Showtime or the new?